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...began to unlock the mysteries of the atom: Max Planck launched quantum physics by discovering that atoms emit bursts of radiation in packets. Also the mysteries of the mind: Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams that year. Marconi was preparing to send radio signals across the Atlantic, the Wright Brothers went to Kitty Hawk to work on their gliders, and an unpromising student named Albert Einstein finally graduated, after some difficulty, from college that year. So much for the boneheaded prediction made the year before by Charles Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office: "Everything that can be invented...
...sure, many of the takeovers could be considered friendly, such as British Aerospace's $12.8 billion purchase of the Marconi defense business from General Electric Co. of Britain. But European business also seems to be playing by a set of new and bloodthirsty rules. In a clean break with the clubby, amicable deal making of the past, a new breed of European corporate strategist is talking the North American lingo of hostile takeovers, poison pills and white knights, and behaving accordingly. Even some of the friendlier activity reflects the dominance of America's hardball tactics...
...Italy's Guglielmo Marconi conducts first transatlantic radio transmission...
Just how we got here so fast--from Marconi's first tentative radio transmission to live photos of Mars broadcast over the Internet--is a story experts are still struggling to make sense of. In hindsight, what appears to have happened is that several diverse forms of communications and information processing, each following its own technological track, emerged from stuttering starts, built up speed and then converged suddenly into a kind of Grand Central Terminal known as the World Wide...
...creates Radio Corp. of America (RCA) to develop radio technology. Buys the British holdings in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America...